Weekly Challenge #258

Greetings fellow Tanglers!

I had time this early part of the week to quick get done two challenges. I have a very loaded rest of the week, so I really needed to get them done and up. Over at i am the diva, it was a use my tangle week and we were to use Rautyflex, by Kathrin Bendel a CZT from Germany. I have to agree that this one is a very high focus tangle, and no matter what I did to follow the step outs, I couldn’t get this one to work the way it was shown. I did however get it to work pretty well by starting with just a basic grid and going from there. I was able to see where things went using a straight grid, the other just didn’t work with my mind. I also moved it into some Tripoli, and I can see it morphing into quandary quite well too, and when I have a bit more time plan to play with that one. So here is my diva challenge, Rautyflex and Tripoli.

Over at Joey’s weekly tangle challenge she challenged us with a string and these three tangles, Buttercup, Fescu and tipple. I had not used Buttercup before so it was another new to me tangle, and one that I know that I will use again. I really am looking forward to spring so used a watercolor wash of green first, and then tangled over it.

  

That’s all for this week, and as I apologize ahead of time that I won’t be able to leave comments for you this week.

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #257

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in my life with conferences at school.  I managed this week to at least attempt the challenge of Oh Shiny, by guest artist Amy Broady, over at the i am the diva challenge.  Of course I was in school and didn’t have access to my stash, so I worked with what I had that day, a copper metallic, and silver shadow Gelly roll pen. I also tried out a couple of new to me tangles, Y-Chain, by Damy, and Sati, by Jem Miller, and put them on String 198 from tanglepatterns.com. The photo really doesn’t show the shine very well, but here is my Oh Shiny.

 Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #255

Greetings and Happy Friday fellow tanglers!

This week over at i am the diva, the challenge is Ghosts of Tangles Past. I had to do some digging to find my stash of old tiles but did mange to find them. I hate when I put stuff in the safe place, and then forget where the safe place is! The tile on the left was done in August 2012 and the right, February 2016. I hope there is some growth there. The tangles used are Hollibaugh, Raddox, Printempts, Crescent Moon, and Bronx Cheer. The Bronx Cheer in the first one was used to hide a little mistake, on the second one it’s not.

Also have to share what my 6^th graders at school did. We got into the Valentangle spirit last week and they completed their first ever Zia’s. I started to put them in the typical ensemble so we could all ooh and ah over them, but the kids started reforming it into a heart shape. I was proud of how well all of them did on their first try!

 Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #254

Greetings fellow Tanglers!  The weather people had it all wrong with the amount of snow last week. Where I live we had a foot! So yes, it was multiple shoveling so that you didn’t have to try and move it all at once. As usual, it was back to work the next morning with not even a late start. Made for a really long day, as I had to be up and out the door extra early in order to make it on time. The usual 25-minute commute turned in to an hour and 15 minutes!  Everything was back to normal quickly, so you have to love the folks that move all the snow!

The challenge this week over at i am the diva, is to make some Valentangles. Love doing these, and am off to a later start this year, so I will continue making more this week. Here are my first two.

Tangles used are Heartline, Caught, Yincut, Tipple, and Paradox.

I worked on last weeks Tickled to Tangle challenge and didn’t get that finished until yesterday, so I am adding that one here, since it fits the diva challenge too.

I used String #130, from Tanglepatterns, which appeared in my work a few weeks back during challenge #250. Tangles used are Luv-a, Join and Heartbox. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #253

Greeting fellow Tanglers! 

I am awaiting the start of the snow as we are in a winter storm warning here in Minnesota, we are going to get hit by winter storm Kayla! (I think it is so funny that they now name the storms!) No one seems to know how much we are going to get, but I have heard anywhere from 3 to 10 inches mentioned, depending who you are listening to, and where the line cuts. We haven’t had any large snowfalls this year, so in a strange sort of way I am looking forward to it, with the exception of the commute to and from school. It will not be nearly enough to call off school for us. Oh how I do miss those random snow days that one would get when you are more rural. My sister who teaches in northern Iowa already knew last night that she would not have school today as they are in a blizzard warning.

Moving on to the diva challenge this week using Molygon. I am still working on getting the ends of mine the way that I would like them and some of the pieces are a bit wonky, but for what it’s worth here are two tiles that I worked on this week.

 Here is another playing with all sorts of fills for the inside of the shape. I think that I am going to paste this into my Zentangle book and keep adding more as I think of them, or see them in others work, so I can have a whole selection of possibilities.

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #252

Greetings Tanglers! The diva challenge this week is string theory: tangle within a tangle. I am having a busy week here with the end of the quarter at school. Lots of late work coming in, and final projects to grade and then the grades to enter into the grade book, so I haven’t had much time to tangle. I had my enrichment class today, so while the kids were tangling I did too! My tangle string was 2-S a tangle pattern from Mina Hsiao, CZT 19. You can find the pattern here. I added a bit of Tipple and Bunzo, a wash of color with the Koi brush pen and done!

Here is what the string looked like before tangling.

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #251

Happy Hump Day!

The challenge over at i am the diva, this week, is Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day. This is the syndrome that dear Artoo, the diva’s son has. This syndrome affects the nervous system. Artoo, this one is for you!

 ( I decided to try out the gems that I have been watching everyone doing.... This is my first attempt, and note to self... don't work so small next time you try something new! )

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #250

Greetings fellow tanglers! This week over at i am the diva the challenge is, bring it back to the old school. It was fun to just tangle this week using just the basics. I did a couple of tiles. First it was a little more Diva Dance, Bales, and Betweed.

Then I did a second using Marasu, Purk, Printempts, Vitruvius, Hollibaugh, and Poke Root.

I also have some catching up to do. December and early January went by like a flash and although I did the challenges, I just never seemed to have the time to post them, so here you go.

Challenge #249, Happy five years to the Diva! Five AuraKnot Stars in a cosmos of Diva Dance.

Challenge #248, Give the Gift of Zentangle. Here are some gift tags that I used on my gifts to the folks at work, and one in a frame that was used as a package tie on, for my secret pal at work. 

Challenge #247, Use my tangle, African Artist, by Tina-Akua Hunziker.

And last but not least the guest challenge #246, Dilip Patels, Mono-tangle trees. A Nekton pine tree.

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #245

Greetings everyone! The challenge this week over at i am the diva is “Back to the Basics-Hollibaugh“. I had some fun with this one, and wanted to get up and posted early this week as I need all the time I can get to get ready for Thanksgiving, and boy do I have some cleanup to do!

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for family, good friends and all of you wonderful tangle folks out there that have taken the time to stop by and leave me such wonderfully kind and supportive comments. Your support this year has really helped me through a difficult time. I thank each and every one of you! Without further ado….

Tangles on Hollibaugh: Well, Meer, Knase, Tortuga, Snail, Tipple, and Knightsbridge.

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #244

Greetings everyone! The challenge over at i am the diva this week is Tripoli Triptastic. I actually like using this tangle, and don’t even mind when it sort of goes out of control on me. I try to just go with the flow. I am still going with just a little bit this week and wanted to play with some color. I think that it might end up as a thank you card. Enjoy! Have a great week, and keep the folks in Paris in your hearts.

 Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments! 

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #243

The challenge this week over at i am the diva was, just a tiny taste, to intentionally leave most of your tile blank. It’s still pretty busy here, so this is a short and sweet one. These are my tiles for the challenge.

 Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments! 

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #242

Greetings this Gourdgeous day! 

Fun challenge this week from i am the diva.

At school it is the end of the quarter tomorrow, and we have no grading day after, add in that there has been a policy change in our building and we have to take any and all late work until the last day of the quarter tomorrow, and I have to get everything graded, entered and final grades done for 280 kiddos! Then on top of it all, our building is getting ready for an International Baccalaureate accreditation visit next week. Can you see why this teacher is a bit crazy and stressed! 

I did manage to get one tile done for this challenge, but will play some more after all the craziness is over. Here is my tile this week trying out Gourdgeous. I worked on a black tile, added a little grey Fabrico marker for some shading. Ghosted a bit of zen stone around on the background and added in a little diva dance with a glaze pen. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments! 

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #241

Greeting Tanglers! This week the challenge, over at i am the diva is by guest challenger, Paula Bramante using Cairns, or stones and ceremony for our tiles. I just knew that I had to do a take on Tina-Akua Hunziker’s, tangle Stonestory. You can find her step outs for this tangle here. I had some fun researching Cairns and learning about them, and this is my tile for the challenge this week. 

I also have been tangling a pumpkin for Halloween, so here are also some views of that fun project. I think that I am going to hit the sales and pick up a few more, so I can continue to add them to the decorations for next year.

Happy Halloween!

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments! 

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly challenge #240

It is Birthday Leaves for the challenge over at i am the diva this week. I had a lot of fun doing this little Zia. I first used a watercolor wash in the background, then traced the leaves, tangled and finished it up with some extra color using my prismacolor colored pencils. 

Interestingly enough I had started a project with my enrichment class of 7^th graders at school doing the same thing last week. They just are finishing up this week, so I thought I would share a little bit of their work with you too.

  

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments! 

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #239

Greetings Tanglers! The challenge this week over at i am the diva was to use Munchin and play. I had a good time trying out a few ways to play with this tangle. Like the diva, black tiles are not my favorite. I of course couldn’t find the bottle of black gesso that I know that I have in the house, so that will have to wait until another time for me to try the divas solution, but I did try one white on a black tile. I messed up the background on the tile, so had to find a solution for that dilemma. I just cut it out around the main tangle and glued it on to a renaissance tile and continued on. 

Here are two more that I played with, on a tan tile and another on the black, but using my Irojiten pencils for some color. I do like the way those work on the black tiles with the black impressed lines.

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments. They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #238

The diva challenge this week is a UMT challenge featuring Beate Winkler’s new tangle Tri-Bee. I really enjoyed playing with this tangle and know that it is going to become one of my go to tangles.  Thanks, Beate!

Now for a little catch up from last week. Here are my two versions of challenge #237, where guest challenger Charlotte Carpentier, had us using sprays and stencils to create our strings. I don’t have to many stencils, but did have one that gives a sort of zebra stripe. I used some Smooch Pearlized Accent spray on a tan tile and then used the left over spray on the stencil to stamp a second white tile. The pearlized effect doesn’t really show in the photo but is quite pretty in person.

 

Last is a Random Act of Zentangle tile that I left behind in one of my favorite stores. I wasn’t able to snap a photo when I left it. There were to many eyes around and I didn’t what to draw attention to what I was doing.

 

Thanks to all of you for stopping by and for your lovely comments. 

They really make my day!

Happy Hump Day to everyone, and Tangle On!

Weekly challenge #236

What a fun i am the diva challenge this week! I was already at school when I read the post during my lunch, and not a lot of possibilities ready at my hands. I could think of all sorts of things at home, but that wasn’t going to work when I wanted to start right way, so I pulled a piece of scrapbook paper out of the scrap box in my art room and tangled on it. Not sure if I liked the result but it was fun, and something that I haven’t done before.

Later in the day I went to grab my clipboard to take some work home with me, and had a duh moment…. It is a perfect surface to tangle and instead of being boring will be fun. I started working on it but as you can see still have a way to go. I am going to experiment with an old beat up one, and see if I can find a way to shade it too, but for now you will see a work in progress.

Thanks for all your kind wishes and continuing support for my husband and I.

Have a great week and Tangle On!

Weekly Challenge #235

Happy Friday Everyone! This week over at i am the diva the challenge is to use stripes in your tile. It’s been a busy week two, back in school with the middle school kiddos. They are still learning the art room routines and starting their first major projects. Hubby is back in the hospital again, and I finally finished this tile up today after starting it on Monday. Can we say busy! Anyway, here is my tile for this week.

Here are a few other things that I have been working on, a wee bijou tile, and a card for a friend of mine.

Have a Great Week, and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #227

Greetings everyone! Imagine my great delight and surprise when I logged on this week to the challenge over at i am the diva! Guest blogger, Lee Darter, picked my tangle Tropicana to be used in her Circus Life challenge this week! I am so honored that I will be able to see how all you great artists out there use it in your tiles.

Here is my tile for Circus Life! It is my life these days, but not quite in the intended meaning!

As many of you know I am still getting used to my “new normal” since my Husband is now in memory care for his dementia. 

I truly thank you all for this gift!

 Have a great week and Tangle On!